The Deni team who competed in the John Ferguson Cup.
The Deniliquin Junior Lawn Tennis Club will host its last week of tennis for the year tomorrow.
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The club wants to celebrate its most successful year in registered players, but also tournament success.
Our budding future tennis stars have won tournaments and been competitive against the best of the best in the entire state of NSW.
The club wants to give every player a complimentary ice cream from Tubby’s ice cream van.
So make sure everyone who is registered turns up for some fun and an ice cream.
The section one grand final will be played between Riv Beef Rippers and Intersport Deni.
The grass courts have been fantastic all year and tomorrow no doubt will see some great tennis.
Not only in section one, but also from our red, orange and green ball players.
All are improving so much, which is inspiring to see each week.
Goodluck to all players involved.
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Budding tennis stars James Gatacre, Toby Rae, Isabella Knox, Jack McGrillen and Charlotte Gatacre participated in the State Champions of Champions event.
All players competed admirably against the best players in the state, and should all hold their heads high.
A special mention to James Gatacre who finished 12th out of 32 in his under-12s event after winning his south west final in Albury the week before.
Our Deniliquin juniors also headed to Albury last weekend to compete in the John Ferguson Cup - a teams event made up of two boys and two girls in under-10s to under-16s, and open.
Competing teams came form the Albury-Wodonga and Wagga regions.
Each player played a singles, doubles and mixed against Albury Wodonga Blue, Albury Wodonga Aqua and Wagga, with the Deniliquin team combining with players from Hay to make up numbers.
Ned Wettenhall, Charlotte Gatacre, James Gatacre, Emma Wettenhall, Bella Knox, Angus Rae, Toby Rae and Kieran Flanagan made up the team.
James Gatacre has performed particularly well in tournaments this year.
It was a lot of fun being involved and even the parents got involved as we didn’t have enough open players.
This saw Jon Gatacre, Rob Wettenhall, Edwina Knox and Victoria Gatacre all extend their skills against the best from Albury and Wagga.
There were parents that played nine sets for the day that took a bit of recovery afterwards, but the kids enjoyed it so much that Deniliquin has offered to host the event next year.
What an amazingly successful junior tennis year we have seen and hopefully this success can continue with many other keen juniors wanting to compete in more tournaments next year.
Success drives success so with this and our incredible junior numbers the Deniliquin lawn tennis club is in a great position for generations to come.
~ Jon Gatacre, DJLTC president
Toby Rae, James Gatacre, Charlotte Gatacre, Bella Knox, Arabella Bliss and Jack McGrillen all competed in Albury
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